We know how the environment or the surroundings influences a person. I sign up for a club, attend a meeting with a group of people, they tell me something, pass something on to me, and this way I begin to become permeated by their ideas, ideals, and goals, and they become important to me. And so, I have to find an environment that will exalt and elevate the spiritual, and then I will unwillingly aspire to the spiritual faster than being pushed from behind by suffering. Therefore the most important thing for a person is to find the appropriate environment that will “brainwash him” as it’s called and will constantly, constantly pull him forward.
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